00:00One day I'm going to go to Leon and say,
00:01do you know I came here because of your egg benedict sandwich in Glasgow?
00:04This works.
00:05Where did you get your specs?
00:07What?
00:07Where did you get your specs?
00:08What can you tell me about,
00:10this is a place to kind of start off
00:14telling stories?
00:15Well, it's got a storytelling tradition
00:18and it has had for a long time.
00:19And, you know, I remember people in Glasgow and Liverpool,
00:22both very similar cities, both saying,
00:25you know, you'll know you're funny
00:28if you play one of the places
00:29because they'll not just laugh for the sake of it,
00:31but you'll need to be as funny as them
00:33because the audience are often quite funny.
00:34So I think it's a good place to start your comedy career
00:38and test whether you're actually funny,
00:39because the audience here have a lot of power
00:42and if they see any fear in your eyes,
00:44you'll know about it.
00:45So I think it's a pretty ballsy place to start your comedy career.
00:48I think it's a good start.
00:49I didn't realise that at the beginning,
00:51you know, I was just going on stage and doing what I was doing.
00:53But it definitely has informed a lot of the things I laugh at
00:58and playing in front of the audience
00:59was a good test for moving everyone else.
01:02I know a lot of comedians sit down and they treat it like a nine to five.
01:06I don't feel like I do well under those circumstances.
01:09I like to go out walking and when I go out to clear my head
01:13and find myself daydreaming
01:15or the moment when I'm just about to fall asleep,
01:19ideas will pop into my head and then it could be a word.
01:24I'm like, I find that phrase or word really funny
01:27and then I'll go to my Wednesday night gig and kind of figure it out on stage.
01:32But that's how I write.
01:33I keep it really loose, real life stuff.
01:37I joke about family, being working class, being sober.
01:42Back in the day, mental health issues and seeking help and getting help
01:46and getting out the other end of that and just being able to joke about it
01:51and then realising that essentially you can actually make a joke about anything.
01:56The thing I've been sitting on this, I wanted to sing a wee bit more
01:58and a lot of people said to me, I wish you would sing more in your shows.
02:02And so for the first time ever, I do this big show tune.
02:05Oh my goodness, we've got Craig Hill, the musical.
02:08Oh my God, let's write that.
02:11And I ended up adding more music into it as well.
02:14I didn't really mean to do that.
02:16So there's a Glaswegian verse of Madonna called Mad Donna
02:19that I do in the show where it's all Madonna songs sang by a Glaswegian,
02:22which immediately I just thought my audience would love that.
02:24And I like it as well. It makes me laugh as well.
02:26You look at some of the comedians that have came out of Glasgow
02:30to know that you can be a comedian and live here.
02:34I know some comedians that have left here and went on to be very successful,
02:38amazing comedians.
02:40I think it's just up to that person.
02:42I don't think you need to leave.
02:44I think to be a professional comedian, you do need a lot of travelling.
02:48So if you're OK with constantly going down to Liverpool, Manchester,
02:53or London from Glasgow and you can do that, then good on you.
02:57But I don't think you need to leave here now.
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